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Scott Bailey

Scott BaileyOffice: Music and Art Center 1529
Phone: 509-682-6736
Email: sbailey@wvc.edu
Website: http://www.sbailey.us/

Education

B.A., Art, Gonzaga University
MFA, Painting, Colorado State University

Courses Taught

ART 110 Drawing 1
ART 210, 211, 212 Painting
ART 220 Advanced Painting (a.k.a. Contemporary Art Practices Seminar)
ART 111, 116, 117 Figure Drawing
ART& 100 Art Appreciation

Bio
Scott Bailey is an artist and educator who has produced and shown his work for over 30 years, including holding more than 20 solo exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad. He lived for years in Italy, Japan, and Egypt, and traveled to over 50 countries before eventually settling into Central Washington in 2003. His art draws implicitly on these disparate experiences of the world. 
 
He has served as the director of the Art Program at Wenatchee Valley College and teaches painting, drawing, and art history-based courses. At WVC, he is also curator of the MAC Gallery, which presents high quality and thought-provoking contemporary art exhibitions. In his desire to make his community a better place for artists and all residents, he started and served as the founding Board President of the North Central Washington Arts Alliance. 
 
Bailey’s most recent paintings attempt to render the incomprehensible through accumulations of millions of tiny bits of color. From a distance, they appear as monotonous grey fields, flickering and vibrating like snow from an old TV.  But closer inspection reveals variation, saturation, and complexity as the surfaces break into thousands of compositions, one nested inside another.  There is an overall experience of all of the information at once, the gestalt of the work, and another very different one when the viewer focuses in on the lines, patterns, and colors within.  As in life, there is a challenge to make sense of what is signal, and what is noise.
 
Exhibitions, Awards, and Activities
 
Solo Exhibitions
  • 2022: Accretions, MAC Gallery, Wenatchee, Wash.
  • 2015: Anthropogenic Landscapes, Gallery One, Ellensburg, Wash.
  • 2014: Instant Landscape: MAC Gallery, Wenatchee, Wash.
  • 2012: Topometry, Topology, Topography, MAC Gallery, Wenatchee, Wash.
  • 2011: Manifest Destiny (Temporary Installation), Western Washington University, Bellingham, Wash.
  • 2010: Manifest Destiny, Robert Graves Gallery, Wenatchee, Wash.
  • 2008: Oversight, Lawrimore Project, Seattle, Wash.
  • 2007: Infrared, EWU Gallery of Art, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, Wash.
  • 2006: Virtually Sublime, Sara Spurgeon Gallery, Central Washington University, Cheney, Wash.
  • 2005: Contemporary Landscapes, Moses Lake Museum and Art Center, Moses Lake, Wash.
  • 2004: Waku wo Koete, White Gallery, Kagoshima, Japan
  • 2003: Scott Bailey, Broward Community College Fine Arts Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale, Flo.
  • 2002: Crimson, Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt
  • 2000: Scott Bailey, Gezira Art Center, Cairo, Egypt
  • 2000: In the Eye of the Beholder, Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt
  • 1999: Paintings, American Academy in Rome, Italy
  • 1998: Opus, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, Colo.
  • 1998: Places to Inspire, Lincoln Center for Performing Arts, Ft. Collins, Colo.
  • 1996: Shizen no Tamashii, White Gallery, Kagoshima, Japan
  • 1994: Scott Bailey, White Gallery, Kagoshima, Japan
 
 
Group Exhibitions
 
  • 2023: From Their Own Studios: 2023 WVC Art Faculty Exhibition, MAC Gallery, Wenatchee, Wash.
  • 2015: Scott Bailey and Ruth Allan, Robert Graves Gallery, Wenatchee, Wash.
  • 2014: Teaching Artist's Exhibition, MAC Gallery, Wenatchee, Wash.
  • 2013: Art on the Wall, Capitol Theater Gallery, Yakima, Wash.
  • 2012: Wenatchee Valley Invitational, Gallery One, Ellensburg, Wash.
  • 2011: WVC Art Faculty Exhibition, Gallery '76, Wenatchee, Wash.
  • 2010: Off the Map, Kirkland Art Center, Kirkland, Wash.
  • 2010: The Art Faculty, Wenatchee Valley Museum, Wenatchee, Wash.
  • 2009: Open Studios, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
  • 2006: WVC Art Faculty Exhibition, Gallery '76, Wenatchee, Wash.
  • 2006: Regional College Invitational, Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Wash.
  • 2003: Faculty Exhibition, American University in Cairo, Falaki Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
  • 2002: Faculty Exhibition, American University in Cairo, Falaki Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
  • 2001: Faculty Exhibition, American University in Cairo, Falaki Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
  • 2001: 2nd Al Nitaq Art Festival, Gresham Hotel, Cairo, Egypt
  • 2000: Faculty Exhibition, American University in Cairo, Falaki Gallery, Egypt
  • 1999: Group Exhibition, William Havu Gallery, Denver, Colo.
  • 1999: Faculty Exhibition, American University in Cairo, Falaki Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
  • 1998: Group Exhibition, Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, Penn.
  • 1998: Group Exhibition, Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs, Colo.
  • 1998: Faculty Exhibition, Hatton Gallery, Ft. Collins, Colo.
  • 1997: MFA Thesis Exhibition, Hatton Gallery, Ft. Collins, Colo.
  • 1997: Group Exhibition, Studio 129 Gallery, Bowling Green, Ohio
  • 1997: Group Exhibition, Innovations Gallery, Ft. Collins, Colo.
  • 1997: Group Exhibition, Golden Arts Center, Golden, Colo.
  • 1997: Magnum Opus X, Sacramento Fine Arts Center, Sacramento, Calif.
  • 1996: Group Exhibition, Kurfman Gallery, Ft. Collins, Colo.
  • 1995: Group Exhibition, Kagoshima Art Museum, Kagoshima, Japan
  • 1992: Group Exhibition, Kagoshima Art Museum, Kagoshima, Japan
  • 1990: Graduate Thesis Exhibition, Gonzaga University AD Gallery, Spokane, Wash.


Positions, Residencies, Workshops

  • 2022-2024: NCW Arts Alliance Founding Board President, Wenatchee, Wash.
  • 2020: Washington State Arts Commission Curator Roster, Olympia, Wash.
  • 2016: Stanley Lifetime Achievement Award for the Arts in North Central Washington, Wenatchee, Wash.
  • 2009: Visiting Artist Residency, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
  • 2001: Contemporary International Curatorial Practices Seminar (Co-Organizer), American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
  • 2000: Visiting Artist, Painting Workshop, Technikon Pretoria, South Africa
  • 1999: Contemporary International Curatorial Practices Seminar, American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
  • 1999: Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome, Italy


Teaching and Other Academic Experience

  • 2003 - Present: Assistant Professor, Director of Art Program, Wenatchee Valley College, Wenatchee, Wash.
  • 2012 - Present: MAC Gallery Director, Wenatchee Valley College, Wenatchee, Wash.
  • 2000 - 2003: Falaki Gallery Director, American University in Cairo, Egypt
  • 1998 - 2003: Assistant Professor of Art, American University in Cairo, Egypt
  • 1996 - 1998: Instructor, Colorado State University, Colo.
  • 1992 - 1994: Instructor, Dai Ichi Yobi Gakko, Kagoshima, Japan
  • 1991 - 1993: Lecturer, Junshin Tandai, Kagoshima, Japan


Selected Bibliography

  • "Curator's Eye: Out of this World," The Editors, City Arts Magazine, Seattle, March issue, 2010
  • "Mapping the World so that We May Use It," Ryan Molencamp, City Arts Magazine CAB, Feb. 12, 2010
  • "Currently Hanging," Jen Graves, The Stranger SLOG, Nov. 28, 2008
  • "Threat Count," Adriana Grant, Seattle Weekly, Nov. 25, 2008
  • "Artists See Spectacles of America...," Regina Hackett, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Nov. 21, 2008
  • "Paintings by Scott Bailey: A Bomb's Eye View," Orion Magazine, October/November, 2008
  • "Moses Lake Art Via Satellite," Pam Robel, Columbia Basin Herald, Sept. 15, 2005
  • "17 and AUC-The Transcriptions," Ars Sine Scienctia Nihil, Gallery Chantal Crousel, Paris, 2004
  • "Modern Egyptian Art 1910-2003," Liliane Karnouk, American University in Cairo Press, 2004
  • "Eye of the Beholder," Rick Steigmeyer, The Wenatchee World, Oct. 30, 2003
  • "A Good Read (Spotlight Culture)," Manal el-Jesri, Egypt Today, January 2003, pp. 49-50
  • "African Anti-museum," Dina Ramadan, Cairo Times, Jan. 2-8, 2003
  • "The Mechanics of Meat," Nigel Ryan, Al Ahram Weekly, Nov. 21-27, 2002
  • "Branching Out," Richard Woffenden, Cairo Times, April-May 25, 2002
  • "Report From Cairo," Marilu Knode, Art in America, January 2002
  • "On Show," Richard Woffenden and Khaled Hafez, Egypt Almanac, 2001
  • "Cairo International Biennale/Al Nitaq," Yasmeen Siddiqui, Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art, Fall/Winter, 2001
  • "The State of the Arts in Egypt," Richard Woffenden, Art in the Islamic World, vol. 35, 2001
  • "Art Hotel," Jane Ayer, Cairo times, March 22-28, 2001
  • "Three's Company," Michael Bray, Cairo times, Feb. 15-21, 2001
  • "In Search of Controversy," Nigel Ryan, Al Ahram Weekly, Sept. 28-Oct. 4, 2000
  • "All That Rot," Richard Woffenden, Cairo Times, May 25-31, 2000
  • "All Things Beautiful," Iman Issa, Al Medina Magazine, April 2000
  • "In the Eye of the Beholder," Khaled Hafez, Egypt Today, May 2000
  • "Best of the Art: AUC Faculty," Cairo Times, Feb. 2000
  • "Painting Pedagogues," Richard Woffenden, Cairo Times, Feb. 18-March 3, 1999
  • "Shizen no Tamashii Exhibition," Minami Nihon Shimbun, July 23, 1996
  • "Exhibition Review," Minami Nihon Shimbun, July 7, 1996


Selected Publications Authored

  • Seattle Corresponding Editor, Contemporary Magazine, London, 2003-2008
  • "A Line Drawn in the Sand Between Cairo's Public and Private Exhibition Spaces," SITE Magazine, Stockholm, June 2003
  • Cairo Corresponding Editor, Contemporary Magazine, London, 2002-2003
  • "Young Egyptian Artists Blazing a New Path," Art in the Islamic World, vol. 35, Egypt: The Arts In View (hardcover), London, 2001
  • "Heba Farid: Photographing in the Fourth Dimension," (English/Arabic/French/German), Catalogue text for exhibitions at Townhouse Gallery, Cairo (Jan. 8-Feb. 6); Photoforum Pasquart, Biel, Switzerland (June 1-Sept. 22, 2001)
  • "Review of the 7th International Cairo Biennale," New Art Examiner, Chicago, Nov. 1999
  • "Pedagogy in Art Education," Junshin Kenkyu Kiyou (Journal), Kagoshima, Japan